Burner



Oct; 21 I924. 1,512,460

T. c. ESPOSITO BURNER Filed March 12 1924 5 Shuts-Sheet 1 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Oct, 21 1924. 1,512,460

- T. c. ESPOSITO BURNER Filed March 12 1924 5 Shuts-Sheet 2 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Oct. 21 1924. 1,512,460

1-. c. ESPOSITO BURNER Filed March 12 1924 S'ShQQtB-Shtfl 3 INVENTOR ZATTORNEY Patented @ch 21 1224.

warren STATES THOMAS C. ESPOSITO, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BURNER.

Application filed March 1a, 1924. Serial no. eea'esa To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. Esrosrro, a citizen of the United States, residing at 1982 East th Street, borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Burners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to oil burners, more particularly to that type of burner which is to be used in conjunction with a tire pot of a furnace, and the object of my invention is topr-oduce a simple and efficient device, which is inexpensive to manufacture, durable in operation, and easily assembled and dismantled. Another object of my invention is to provide a burner which is designed without the use of bolts or nuts.

to have the fuel intake pipe lead up the side of the burner and then over the top thereof, so that the generator and the pipe leading from the generator will always be above the heat, thereby insuring against waste of gas which is common in gas burners where the gas is admitted. into the bottom of the burner. @ther objects of my invention will be in part obvious from the following specifica tion.

Reference will be had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate correspondin parts throughout the several views, in W 1ch:--

Figure 1 is a vertical cross section of an embodiment of my invention.

dFigure 2 is a cross section onthe line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6 are details embodyingmy invention.

eferring to the drawings I have shown by way of illustration merely a burner which is readily adapted to be installed within a fire pot of a furnace with great ease and celerity. It will be seen that my burner consists of as few parts as possible so that the assembly can be done by simpl positioning one part upon another, for t e reason that the parts are made to interlock Means have also been provided to position the parts in their proper relation to each other, for example the parts have tubular interlocking projections which will not permit individual rotation.

The burner comprises generally a base portion indicated by the reference character 10, which is mounted in a furnace upon the usual fgrate bars. The base portion 10 consists o a right angular ring 11, having one face 12 secured to an annular base supporting member 13; by means of screws 1% and the other face member 15 acting as a supporting flange to support a disc shaped member 16, which acts as a damper to regulate the air to the burner through the apertures 17. The apertures 17 register with apertures 18 in a second disc member 19, which is mounted upon the angular ring 11 and fixed against rotation by means of the set screw 20, passing through the base supporting member 13. The disc shaped member 16 is rotated by means of the handle 21, which is secuned to the boss 22 on the bottom of the damper 16 by means of the threaded rod 23 which in turn has an elbow 24:, connected to another rod 25 extending at right angles to the rod 21 out of the furnace, and connects with a handle 26 for manipulation.

Supported on the base portion 13 is an annular member 27 resting upon the shoulders 29 and 30 of the base portion 13, and

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this annular memberalso has a plurality of tubular members 31 which interlock with a plurality of tubular members 32 integral with the 4 base supporting member 13.

Mounted upon the annular member 27 is a frusto conical member 33, which in turn supports the cap 34 which has a turned down flange 35 resting upon the member 33 to provide against displacement.

Supported with the cap 34: is a ball shaped member 36 actin as a reservoir, the operation of which will be hereinafter described. Supporting the ball 36 is a cast iron pipe 3'. leading out of the burner through an opening-38 in the member 33 and connecting with a nipple to a gas generator 39, and this generator 39 is connected to an elbow 40, which in turn is connected to apipe 41 running at right angles to the generator to a needle valve 42. This needle valve 42 is connected to a cut ofi valve 43 which in turn is connected to a pipe line not shown coming from an oil storage tank mounted high above the burner so as to feed the burner by gravity flow. I also provide an overflow pipe 44 .which carries the oil down to a pail not shown. When the pail is nearly full of oil the weight of'the pail operates the lever 15' on the valve 43 to cut off the supply to the burner.

In operating this burnerit is first necessary to open the cut off Valve 43 and adjust the needle valve 42 to determine the desired amount of oil required-to properly burn at an even temperature without choking the burner. After this is regulated the pilot light 16 which is house gas is lighted to preheat the generator 39. After the generator 39 is sufliciently heated to crack the oil, the gas flows through the pipe 87 and down through the nipple 17 into the combustion chamber 48, where it ignites and spreads the flames radially as shown by the direction of the arrows in Figure 3 against the fire pot of the furnace. It will be seen by referring to Figure 1 of the drawing that the generator is positioned at the side of the burner and in direct path of the flame so as to always keep it within the hottest part of the flame. It will also be observed that the gas pipe coming out. of the top of generator is extended over and above the flame so as to continue to keep the generation constant until the gas is delivered to the combustion chamber. In the event of the gas flowing too freely into the combustion chamber, 1 have provided a ball shaped reservoir 36 to hold the excess gas until it is free to enter the combustion chamber and become ignited.

The air is permitted to enter the combustion chamber through the apertures 17 and 18 in the damper 11 and the disc 19 and by manipulating the handle 21 the passage can be restricted to permit the desired amount of air to enter the combustion chamber.

It will be understood that I do not wish to confine myself to the burner as shown as this is merely illustrative, and many modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

1 claim:

1. A burner of the kind described com arising an annular base supporting member having a plurality of tubular projections thereon and a frusto-conical projection in the center thereof, an annular member mounted upon the said annular base supporting member having tubular projections thereon interlocking with the aforesaid tubular members on the aforesaid annular base supporting member and a frusto-conical flange connecting the said tubular projections, substantially closed at the top to form a combustion chamber between it and the frustoconical projection on the said annular base supporting member, a frusto-conical member motuited upon the annular member and having an opening therein to admit of a supply pipe, a cap mounted on said' frustoconical member, a generator mounted at the side of said burner, a supply pipe connected to said generator and extending up and over the burner and through the said frusto-conical member thence down through the annular member into the combustion chamber a. reservoir connected to said supply pipe within said cap, and means for permitting and restricting the flow of air to the burner.

2. A burner of the kind described comprising an annular base supporting member, iaving a plurality of tubular projections thereon and a frusto-conical projection in the center thereof, a fixed disc plate ha ring openings therein and fixed to said annular base supporting member, an annular member mounted upon the said annular base supporting member having tubular projections thereon interlocking with the aforesaid tubular members on the aforesaid annular base supporting member and a frusto-coni nil flange connecting the said tubular projections, substantially closed at the top to form a combustion chamber between it and the frusto-conical projection on the said annular base supporting member and having an opening therein to admit of a supply pipe,

' a cap mounted on said frusto-conical member, a generator mounted at the side of said burner, a supply pipe connected to said generator and extending up and over the burner through the said frusto-conical member, thence-down through the annular member into the combustion chamber, a reservoir connected to said supply pipe within said cap, and means comprising a disc damper having a plurality of openings therein to be moved in and out of registry with openings in the said fixed plate.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification this 4th day of December 1923.

THOMAS C. ESPOSITO. 

